An 84-year-old man died today after a woman found him floating and unresponsive in the rooftop hot tub of College Point, Queens's Spa Castle, NBC 4 New York reports.

Is your vagina feeling sluggish? Maybe it needs a day at the gyno spa. A new trend in vaginal hygiene has arrived in America. It involves the words "pungent steam," "mugwort tea," and "open-seated stool." Meet the vaginal steam bath.

Author Robert Randolph has been talking to the tabloids about John Travolta's habit of hooking up with men at Los Angeles saunas. Most media outlets, however, were too shy to delve into the steamy details. We're not quite as timid.

It's probably not a good idea to have the person who regulary gives you massages be the same person who also performs liposuction on you when the need arises. Thank you. [NYT]

Many thanks to AdWeek's AdFreak blog for directing our attention to this new advertising campaign for Face to Face NYC, a day spa on West 20th Street. This ad here is one of a handful the company is now running in publications like HX, Genre, and Time Out New York. Face to Face describes the campaign as "raunchy, yet…

Last Friday the New York Times sent out a memo telling staffers it's cracking down on expenses across the board. Sunday it published Maureen Dowd's (expensed) account of three days at Canyon Ranch resort. Huh:

When it comes to selling treatments that claim to get rid of fat and cellulite, these days doctors and estheticians can impute magical powers to a big slab of metal and plastic, throwing in words like "laser" and "light energy" and "high frequency," and pluck out of the air a price with a vague connection to both…

The beauty industry will never, ever run out of ridiculous new ingredients that allegedly have magical anti-aging, anti-blemish, anti-whatever-might-be-making-you-ugly powers. And when that ingredient has the reputation of being precious and expensive, so much the better! The substance that one cosmetics company is…

As if it weren't already hard enough to ignore the numbers of downtrodden foreigners who sacrifice so much so that we can have our doors opened, our bodies taxied and our authentic New York City Chinese food delivered, New York magazine has to run a story on what it's like (not great) to be a spa worker in this…